| Once I'd finished I went back to Aurora. The guard asked if I'd got my photos and I said yes. We went on deck 4 again but near the medical centre this time. The guard checking me back in said I looked worn out so I told him I'd just been down one end of the dock for photos of Costa Serena then up the other for Athena. I got some pics of the signs and realised why doctors are so rich on these cruise ships! Then I went to the cabin for a long drink of water and to get my breath back! |
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| Costa Serena was due to sail at 5pm, us at 6pm and Athena at 7pm. I went up on deck for 4.45pm to get a good spot as I waited. Every five minutes the Costa would give one blast. She began to let go of her ropes but had to stop with two left as a vessel arrived to dock opposite. Once that passed twenty minutes after her time she released the rest. Despite blasting 3 times we never responded even though the captain or someone had said they were part of Carnival. The Italians were shouting, whistling and one waved what looked like an enormous towel. We dropped our first lines at half past but went nowhere. |
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| The pilot boat came zipping towards us, the pilot waving up at us as they got close. Meanwhile as we made our departure preparations, the Costa was getting further and further away and the light was slowly fading. There was a quiz going on somewhere and we had a Spanish sailaway with music and sangria. I didn't buy any booze as I had a camera and camcorder to juggle. |
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| The captain came on about 5.45pm saying pretty much the same as La Coruna - everyone was onboard so we were off. Of course, unlike the other two, we had to back up first and turn. As we neared Africa Mercy, whoever was doing the quiz said we were passing another cruise ship so wave. There were a small handful of crew on her and a couple of vehicles so some cruise ship! |
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| I went back in to get ready for dinner. Tonight was informal so a little dressing up. Brian took to saying, "Hello, gorgeous" so I would reply with, "Hello, sexy". Afterwards, now I had a flash, albeit on an inferior camera, I was able to get photos of the display before I went to the theatre as it was panto time! Oh yes it is! |
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| The Aurora Theatre Company were putting on Aladdin and they actually did have the lead played by a woman, unlike the politically correct pantos of today when women are women and men are men. Also thankfully there was no Basil Brush, Mr Blobby or Nookie Bear in sight! The front two rows were taken by the young children with their parents behind. The show began with a message from the captain saying we had docked in Peking, which was some feat as it's in the middle of land. Then he proceeded to tell us about the goodies and baddies we would encounter and told us how to boo a baddie. |
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| The show lasted an hour and was very good, including the corny jokes. Towards the end we were told we had to sing Happy Birthday to a five year old called Sarah and when the actor playing Wishy Washy asked where she was for the spotlight to go on her, a voice at the back shouted, "She's gone to the toilet!" Call me cynical but I have a feeling that was part of the show as it carried on and we never sang to her later. Afterwards I went back to the cabin and got some photos of the decorations in the atrium. |
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| Went to the quiz as usual. Isobel and Tommy didn't come tonight and we still didn't win again. Then I went to bed. When I awoke in the morning we were in a force 7-8 according to the info channel and we were doing 20 knots. The forecast in Lisbon was sunny with scattered cloud and 16 degrees. The noon update by the officer of the watch had him tell us ginger is good for nausea and he recommended a visit to one of the bars for several whisky and gingers! He also said there is nothing to stop a ship pitching and rolling but if anyone knew of something, they'll patent it and make a fortune. By 2pm we were now in a force 10 and still doing 20 knots. My window had been taking a hell of a beating, despite being extra protected, all day. At 4.30pm we were now experiencing a force 11 and everything was sliding more than normal. |
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| The can Roque had put the flower in fell into the drawer of the bedside table and the ashtray flew onto the floor. Before going to dinner I told Roque about the can and I'd cleaned it up. I'd not long been sat down and been given the menu when the ship lurched port sending things flying off the tables and ice buckets, with and without wine, to the floor. Brian was on his hands and knees picking up the ice cubes which had gone under several tables as Terry and Joyce arrived (her dad was already there). I lost the side plate and both forks. During dinner, despite no major mishaps, there was one moment a loud collective gasp went around. Joyce said they'd been in the Crow's Nest and at 5pm there was an almighty crash. She also said the spray was reaching the windows. We had an announcement saying the show was cancelled, replaed by the singer and the piano concert in the Playhouse was changed to a film. I started to feel unwell towards the end so waited for Cliffon to bring me my wrapped apple (as he had since the first night) then went back to the cabin to take some. As soon as I got in, the mugs slid across the tray, saucer and pot of milk landed in my bag with another pot on the floor while things crashed into the bedside drawers again. |
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| Around 8.30pm I had a knock at the door. It was a crew member, with Roque by his side, asking to look at my window as he'd had a report of a leak. Much to my relief I didn't have one and I think Roque got confused by the water I'd told him I'd cleaned up in the drawer. A few minutes later there was an announcement calling an assessment party to go to cabin F202. I sent Pam a text asking if the assessment party would be looking at the leak. At 8.40pm the captain came on for the first time that night to say we had an incident and would have to slow and turn the ship port to evade the prevailing winds while repairs were carried out. At 8.43pm over the tannoy came the call for the damage control party to go to F202. Six minutes later we began to turn and maintained our speed between 10-11 knots though often went slightly over it. The captain spoke again at 9.06pm to tell us they would be effecting repairs on the necessary window and he would come back on later when we were ready to resume course if he felt he needed to. At this time we hadn't been told exactly what the damage was or if anyone had been hurt. At 9.53pm there was another knock at the door and a couple of crew came to fit a steel shutter to my window. It was for extra protection, I was told, and would be removed when we'd got to Lisbon. |
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| I went to the quiz and showed them a photo of my shutter. As we waited for it to start, Karen told me Sarah Lou of the entertainments team had had a nasty accident at the Individual Quiz when the scoreboard fell onto her head. She said it took several people to lift it off her as it was really heavy and she was very badly concussed. The doctor had come to her and she had been taken away. The captain came back on at 10.26pm to tell us the window in F202 was damaged but not how badly. He also said we would now arrive in Lisbon at 10am instead of 8am and all tours would be adjusted. Mine was at 8.30am. He gave his final broadcast twelve minutes later, letting us know we would be resuming our course so asked everyone to sit down and that those whose cabins were the portside of F deck had a storm shutter fitted over their windows as a precautionary measure. Surprisingly no mention of those on starboard like me and there were Post-It notes going as far back as reception that I was able to see. After the quiz I returned to my cabin and found a letter and ear plugs in the letter holder. The ear plugs were to keep out the noise of the shutter, according to the note. I checked the info channel at 12.15am and nothing had changed and we were doing 14.7 knots. |
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| I was woken up by a couple of texts from Rowan at 2.15am so checked the info channel to see if the weather had changed. It hadn't. However there were some notable absences from the slides. One location was missing, our speed, picture of Lisbon and the Lisbon weather. The weather always followed what we had at the present time and it had been replaced by a shorter caution so we now had two of them. I didn't think anything of it until it was the same at 7am. I started to text everyone, saying we wouldn't be going to Lisbon. You simply don't remove the weather of somewhere you're going to as the passengers need to know what to wear unless you aren't going. La Coruna, Madeira and Tenerife hadn't been taken off until we'd left. Doesn't take a genius to work it out. Looking at our position we were still too far away for 10am as it was. My dad replied, saying he looked at the Purplefinder on the P&O site and we were down to 10 knots at 4.02am. We were still going fairly slowly at that point. At around 8.35am it began to get bumpier so we were speeding up. We did turn towards Lisbon but that was clearly for effect. I went to the Crow's Nest to get some photos and video while Roque did the cabin. |
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| The captain came on at 9.47am to say we would be picking up the pilot at 1.15pm and dock at 2pm. All excursions were now cancelled but the excursion team were going to try and arrange something. Instead of sailing at 5.30pm we would stay an extra hour. He also told us he had been forced to slow down during the night to 9 knots. Many people agreed there was no point going there. It would only have been to pick up Tom O'Connor, who was due to entertain us that night. But considering he'd been on Oriana's Christmas and New Year cruise, it seemed incredibly stupid to drop him off at Madeira on the 3rd then have him fly to Lisbon just for three nights on another ship. Seems like bad planning on someone's part. So I went back to the cabin after escaping Eric again who was coming in as I was going out and had suggested we sit in the back row of a show. The decks were closed and the bottom of two pictures on the wall near the stairs was merrily sliding from side to side. |
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| The captain came back on at 10.18am for an update. We would now NOT be going to Lisbon. Well what a surprise(!) He claimed the reason was the pilots have closed the port to all vessels over a 4.5m draft and mentioned a shallow patch called the Bar, which is what Liverpool also has. He said the restrictions wouldn't be lifted for at least six hours. He made no mention of the bad weather in Lisbon and with the slide still absent the only way to check was by texting home and my dad replied it was heavy rain. We certainly hadn't been told that, even when we were supposedly still going there. Later I discovered Saga Ruby had skipped the port and her call was before ours and Black Prince, due the same day as us, had gone to La Coruna instead. I wondered where Oriana was and doing as she'd have been in the same storm as us. It would have been nice to be told something along the lines of, "Oriana is on our portside where you can watch her bobbing like a cork and throwing her passengers around the same as us" but it never happened. As the Emporium was the only shop open due to the weather I went there but en route in the corridor was talking to a woman who had been stuck in her cabin all cruise, first with norovirus then seasickness, and had been looking forward to getting off for a while in Lisbon. After the Emporium I made my way up to the library to enquire about the 1997 Canberra book I know they had for Amy's birthday present. The woman said she would find out if they had any as there were none there or in the cupboards and let me know. I did notice they had the Aurora books back. After all the palaver Chris as P&O went through back in July tracking copies down because they were meant to be stopping them! A bloke came in at 11.35am to check the shutter and said it would stay on until the weather calmed. The noon update said a force 8 but that slide was missing too from the info channel. So I filled in the questionnaire and decided to have a snooze. |
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| I was woken from my slumber at 2.30pm by a knock at the door and two crew members came in to remove my shutter. I had my view back!!!! As I still had no idea what the wind speed was, I asked and they didn't know either, only that it was less. Shortly after they'd gone I saw three dolphins but we'd passed before I had a chance to get a photo. Some of the decks had reopened at 2.55pm and the weather slide was back an hour later when it said force 5-6 so I went to see if the shops were open as Rowan wanted her one of each and a spare bears which she hadn't bought back in September. I got chatting to the staff, Ruth (I think it was) and Mark as it was quiet. It was his first contract and he loved it. She was telling me she'd worked on the QM2 for six months and had been aboard Lizzie when the sale announcement was made and the shops took in a fortune in just three days. |
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| Back to the cabin and an entertainment announcement. Colonel Bob Stewart would be in the theatre instead of Tom O'Connor. The library called at 5.15pm about the Canberra book. They had found one copy, I was told, in the stores so I dashed upstairs to get it. Informal for tonight so down to dinner. Brian winked at me! He said the window in F202 had smashed and the same thing happened four years before during the Sydney to Singapore segment of the world cruise. Went back to the cabin for a bit then to the quiz. We all decided to go to Carmen's. I'd had a sleep so could have a late night! David was there. Now as nice as he was he did become something of a limpet during the cruise. Karen got him onto the dancefloor. I refused to go as somehow I'd got injured from my lower back to shin during the afternoon and it was hard enough sitting but she got me up there in the end along with her mum and David. When her mum returned to her seat, we noticed some girls giggling at David. I spoke to one who said he fancies me and had been following her around all day. I can believe that! Once Alice and Hammy had gone there was no way I was dancing again. David wanted a photo with me, "To show you off when I get home." Uh-oh! We ended up ignoring him most of the time as we people-watched and laughed at some real idiots out there. I noticed too a strip light under one of the seats hanging down and pointed it out to Karen. We made our escape at 1.45am and he kissed my hand. We left via the other entrance in the hope he wouldn't follow but, as his cabin was so close to mine, I couldn't help wonder if he was lurking somewhere. I mean he was nice and pleasant enough and clearly had some sort of learning difficulty but he did become a bigger pain than Eric! We were now a force 4-5 and still a bit bumpy. I just wish I could see how fast we were going! |
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| Had a really bad night in pain and had also dreamt about Brian. I got up at 10.30am and went for a wander to get pics with this crappy camera while Roque did the cabin. Café Bordeaux was one I'd had trouble with before so I did that first. I'm a little annoyed with myself I have been on this ship twice now, and with all these sea days during this cruise, and have never eaten or had a drink there. I heard their hot chocolate is marvellous. If it's still there and not been turned into a Marco Pierre White franchise by the next time I go on her I'll have something. |
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| They were selling duty free outside Carmen's so I got some. Karen and Alice were in there already waiting for the bingo so I sat with them until it finished. Karen told me she'd overheard at breakfast Oriana had broken down but didn't know if it was recent or the current cruise. Once that was finished I left them and continued photographing the decorations around this beautiful ship before they disappeared. |
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| As Roque was just doing the cabin, I grabbed the Britain Today and went for another wander, bumping into Alice who said there was some music in Champions and she'll get the others. Seats were scarce so I grabbed some by the door. Betty spotted me and we had an orange juice as the others arrived. She told us her late husband had founded Computeach and they were planning to sell it next year. Also another window had gone on the same deck during the night of the force 11. Later when I went to change a twenty for the tips, Eric was at reception. He crushed me on sight. The woman behind the desk told me to run. I replied I was trying. She was glad of her marble protection so I asked if I could jump over. At 5.35pm I received a text from my dad saying we were due to dock on the 6th at 2359 which I forwarded to Karen. We were now sailing through a force 7 in the Bay of Evil. |
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| Someone had been seasick again. I don't know how long the stairs had been like that but the above was taken as I went to dinner and Brian accompanied me to the table arm in arm. I told the others our latest arrival time and they weren't surprised considering we were already more than halfway through the Bay of Evil when we ought to have been in it the next day. Joyce's dad mentioned a loose handrail he'd seen on one of the decks. During dinner they had the parade of the galley staff and they also gave us a copy of our menus signed by the waiters and in a folder. Unfortunately they only went up to the 4th and we got no more. I wasn't sure if I'd go to the show with my pain but decided to. It was Love At The Movies where they recreated some musicals. It wasn't bad but could have been better. |
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I'd been back to the cabin to rest my back and it said we were force 2. Up to the quiz as usual then we decided to go to Carmen's again. We spotted David by the entrance to Champions so did an about turn, through Masquerade in case he'd seen us, then up to deck 8 where we bumped into Alice and Hammy by the photos. Before they had a chance to warn us, Eric came over. Then we went back down but Carmen's was closed thanks to Colonel Bob Stewart but we had another Eric moment. Jon was about to make a phone call and saw we needed rescuing. He came over. Karen put her arm through his. Eric said, "Well that evens things up" until I went over and put my arm through his other one. Jon was a star and we left him to make his call while we walked back through Champions and past David. We noticed he was with the people laughing at him the day before. Karen saw her parents in Cafe Bordeaux so we went and sat with them as we waited for Carmen's to open. Another Indian lady came over and they talked about the country and how it had changed. Then we went to see if Carmen's was open. Alice was telling me about their Ventura cruise, which is immediately after the one Pam and I are doing. Apparently as long as there's two full-paying passengers, the third and fourth go free so Karen is free. However, as there's £150 onboard credit, she asked her mum if she could be the main |
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| Had another bad night due to the pain and was also coming down with something. I had a terrible cough and kept getting hot. The people in the next cabin had also been coughing and sneezing a lot towards the end of the cruise. I learned after I got home someone had flu by Madeira and didn't have any consideration for their fellow passengers. So rather than staying in their cabin, infected people who then passed it onto others. Would they like to catch something due to selfish people? I bet they wouldn't! We had come out of the Bay of Evil at 7am and were now in the English Channel heading home. Ah home - terra firma! But would I be able to sleep without all that rocking? Soon find out. Anyway the weather said overcast so I grabbed my coat and went to check on the tree. It was raining! Why couldn't it have said that? The tree lived - hooray! |
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| I went back in, had an orange juice in the Crow's Nest and noticed what I'd told people yesterday about our docking had midnight had got around when I overheard more people talking about it. I also overheard someone say Oriana had broken down in the Caribbean and the lights had gone off. That confirmed what Karen had already told me. One bloke thought she was behind us until I told him she docked at 9.30am in Southampton. Went back to the cabin and got a pic en route of some of the decorations already down. |
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| I received a text at 11.40am saying we would now dock on the 7th at 1am. During the noon update there was no mention of our arrival time and the weather was going to remain the same for the rest of the day. At 12.30pm the captain came on and contradicted that. He said to avoid a force 8 he had decided to head straight to Southampton and would dock at 12.30am. We were going there early anyway! Did he think we were morons? Hardly the first time ships, including Aurora, had been ahead of schedule. At 1.35pm I got a text updating me on the departures of QE2, Queen Victoria, Boudicca and Oriana as we'd be passing them earlier now. Oriana was still 10pm and we hadn't changed from our 1am arrival. As they were beginning to collect the cases from 4pm, I finished my packing then put mine out at 3.15pm. By 4pm they had put on the TV we were in a force 8 but it wasn't. We slowed down to under 10 knots but the waves weren't that rough, although it was slowly getting rougher. Pam sent a text at 5.40pm saying VTS now listed us arriving at 2.30am and asked if the captain knew what he was doing! As I went to dinner I saw the cruise log in the letter holder and that was full of lies. It made out nothing major had happened resulting in our Lisbon cancellation and only one wind speed matched what it had on the TV. Joyce said at dinner the captain was trying to fool us with his announcement when I updated them on our new time. After having a photo taken with Terry, Joyce and Joyce's dad, I said goodbye Tito, Cliffon and Brian then went to the cabin. |
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| So we were nearing Southampton and it would soon be time for the other ships. Pam was watching the AIS and would let me know when something was close so I'd know when to go out on deck. She gave me a fright when she texted to say Queen Victoria was dead on so I dashed out of the cabin without my coat in case the decks were still closed only for her then to say it would be another hour at least. I returned to the cabin to wait as I received constant updates. I went back out at ten to and at 9pm the first of the four ships came into view off St Catherine's Point. Queen Victoria all lit up, funnel too. She was doing 19.4 knots to our 9.7 so would hit the bad weather - and did! We had an announcement they would pass on our port side but nothing about Boudicca. Twenty minutes later the QE2 arrived but was so much darker and her funnel was off. It hadn't been when she left, my dad said. Lizzie was doing 19.4 knots as well as she passed and we'd increased slightly to 10.1 knots. Very few people came out let alone stayed. Often they would pop out, take a quick pic, then pop back in. |
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| Pam had told me Boudicca was going starboard so as soon as Lizzie was gone I zipped round to get her. How disappointing to discover she was so far away! She is there in the photo below. She's the faint white dot in the middle. And to think her sisters had been more cooperative in Madeira. The camera developed a fault with the lens so I went to the photo shop and, although it was closed, the staff were still there. The bloke who sold it to me dealt with my problem and as I said I wanted it for Oriana, he asked when we would be passing. I told him around midnight. Sometimes it felt like pulling teeth but he eventually said he would get someone to look at it and if it couldn't be repaired they'd replace it. He knocked at my door before I went to the quiz with it all fixed. So thank you for all your fast help! |
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| And so to the quiz. If anyone had told me before I went I'd end up going every night since the 28th I'd have said they were mad. But it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it. Alice had suddenly come down with flu badly so stayed in the cabin and Joyce put her feet up leaving Terry joining us. We also had Eric to make up the six. |
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| He didn't give up. Joyce had told me at dinner Eric had once been married but his wife ran off with the milkman. Knowing him, it was hard to tell if it was true or one of his stories. He wanted me to go for a fruit tea with him afterwards. I told him I already had a date. He looked forlorn. Then I added, "With Oriana!" He still wasn't amused at being usurped by a ship. |
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| A text came through from Amy at 11.45pm now the signal had stopped cutting out, saying we were about to be hit on by the pilot. Karen and I went out on the Promenade Deck just as he was coming up and he pulled in below us. |
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| There was still a little time before Oriana would appear. Karen returned to the cabin to see how her mum was and I went to get a photo of the atrium minus the display. Then Pam said Oriana was nearby so I headed back out. The wind made it difficult to open the portside door so I had to go starboard and around. There was a woman all wrapped up waiting to see her but had no idea about the others. Karen had sent a text saying she could see her from their window. If there was an announcement she was coming I didn't hear one. There was no blasting between us either unless the wind prevented that being heard. Still not many people on deck but there were some on Oriana taking photos of us. Apparently the captains had wished each other a Happy New Year and ours noted Oriana had no broken windows. |
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| I went back into the warmth to wait until we were near Fawley. I always let my dad know when we're near Hythe then he can put the camcorder on standby. Unfortunately my peace was disturbed by some drunks. The woman, wearing barely a dress, complained it was cold. The men were too busy boozing too care. Then I got hit on by a 56 year old from Eastbourne who claimed he was a pilot. Hate him to be in charge of my plane! He annoyed me saying Brighton was "Full of queers" and Americans are all wankers. Only one wanker there as far as I was concerned! I got the tug Bentley attaching and by the time I realised where we were thanks to him we'd nearly passed Hythe. |
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| It wasn't as cold as December when I'd got back on the QE2 but it was still nippy so I watched the rest of our arrival on the webcam. We finally docked at 3am and for a further fifteen minutes they were tightening the ropes. My cabin was near the thrusters and winches so it made a hell of a racket. I was glad when peace descended but then so did the cold! The cabin became freezing and I ended up sleeping in my clothes and cardigan! In the morning I said goodbye to Roque. He was very happy as he had officially retired. I bumped into Karen and her parents outside the Medina and her poor dad had come down with flu now. I went to Ellora deck to wait for disembarking. Disembarking was due to begin at 8.30am with the self-disembarkers only they were still unloading the cases. Karen and her parents came along. They sat on chairs while we were on the floor. Karen asked if I knew I had two more parents. Apparently if they didn't see me around the ship they'd worry I was okay. Finally the first colour was called at 8.45 followed by the second at 9am. We were all purple so not due until 9.45, by which time they had caught up. Despite blocking off the atrium stairs from Ellora, we and others went that way anyway down to Formosa to get off. Again they took the cards. We collected our luggage and made for customs. despite operating a red zone, there was no one there and everyone just walked through. We said our goodbyes at the taxi rank as they went to their car. I got a taxi at 10am and was home twenty minutes later. So the verdict. Despite the weather and missing Lisbon it was an excellent cruise and worth paying an arm and leg for. The weather made it an experience I'll never forget and turned it into an adventure when it could easily have been a nightmare, especially as it was my first time in the Bay of Evil. I expect it was for those who'd done the previous Christmas cruise and wondered if they would ever get good weather. People I spoke to just shrugged it off as one of those things, though Betty had wished she'd bought a diamond ring rather than spend the money on the back to back trips. Karen and her parents have done this one many years and said it was the first time they'd had bad weather. I'd love to know how much damage we had but I suppose I'll have to wait until the MCA report. We didn't even make the local paper! I know of at least two windows, the strip light in Carmen's and a loose handrail. There were rumours about aft doors being damaged and balcony furniture going overboard but that's the trouble with being on a ship - Chinese Whispers! If I had the money I would definitely go again. Maybe Oriana instead to see how they do things compared to Aurora. It won't be for a couple of years yet though. One thing definitely not worth paying for are the DVDs. The Madeira special lasted ten minutes. The fireworks were longer than that! We got similar footage to the other of the town and ships as well as departure. We had no countdown to midnight, no bongs, no blasting, the ode to the haggis at dinner was still minus the ode and everything had music over the top. The cruise DVD lasts forty-seven minutes and that's a bigger waste of money. Very little of the actual cruise itself. They put Madeira and Tenerife the wrong way round. The port footage (apart from the fireworks) wasn't even filmed on our trip! The initial Madeira shots had a Grand class Princess, Artemis and either Black Watch or Boudicca in port. There was also a very annoying muffled voiceover about the places. The rest of the DVD was padded with various aspects of the ship. As the laundry one had a label saying 2006 I wouldn't be surprised if the rest were from then too. Where were the activities? Decorations? Ode to the haggis? Is that copyright? My dad watched it and said there was no point even having it included if they cut the poem. The only other one I have is from Constellation which I thought at the time was rubbish but compared to this it's brilliant. In thirty minutes they included more passengers, activities, theatre production and had footage of an excursion in each port as well as giving a tour of the ship which thankfully doesn't include the likes of the engine room. I certainly won't be buying a P&O cruise video again if this is the best they can do. That is my only gripe from a marvellous cruise. To see photos of Queen Victoria, QE2, Boudicca and Oriana in Southampton on the 6th, click here. For more of the ships in Maderia click here and Tenerife go here. |
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